While most psychiatrists may not realize that they are causing dependency
and helplessness, millions of patients throughout the nation are misled
into believing that they have biological and genetic defects that can be
corrected by medication or electroshock, in effect making them feel help-
less and dependent on their doctors and on physical treatments. When
many of these patients become worse as a result of treatment, they are told
that their underlying “mental illness” is surfacing. When multiple drugs
lead to escalating adverse emotional effects, more drugs are added to the
regimen, and too often the patient is hospitalized. Rarely do these doctors
admit that the drugs are the source of the patients’ worsening problems
and that a drug-free period of time may lead to recovery. Throughout the
process, the patients remain so spellbound that they cannot perceive how
badly they’re are doing or that the drugs are ruining their lives.

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